Will the Minister say, in relation to the administration of family law in the Dublin area, whether there is undue delay in providing the required additional accommodation? I am asking the question in view of a reply given by the Minister's predecessor that he expected to have the accommodation available at the end of last summer.

I would like to assure Deputy Mrs. Desmond that she would be wrong in assuming I or the Department or the Government will slow down in any way on an undertaking given by my predecessor. In actual fact, the opposite is the case. I have given instructions that the work must be speeded up.

Could the Minister say when he expects to have the accommodation available?

I have not got an approximate date right now but the accommodation should be ready by the end of the year. That is the current advice I have got and I would hope that that advice would prove to be correct. I, too, want to see this finished.

Will the accommodation involve waiting rooms and consultation rooms for women awaiting attachment orders and maintenance orders so that the parties will not have to meet face to face and will there be improved staffing?

I think so. I am almost certain that all these things will be provided.